Document: Trends in Active Duty Military Deaths

The following is the May 20, 2019 Congressional Research Service report, Recent Trends in Active-Duty Military Deaths.

From the report

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Since 2006—five years after the start of major combat operations in Afghanistan and three years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq—a total of 16,652 active-duty personnel and mobilized reservists have died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Seventy-three percent of these casualties occurred under circumstances unrelated...

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